Stories & Classes · Fall 2019
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Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center Stories & Classes · Fall 2019 תשע”ט / תש"פ סתיו jccmilwaukee.org Contents Welcome Jewish Life 4-6 Chai-Five: 5 Fun Facts about the High 4 Find Your Center. Holidays You have probably seen these three words printed on a JCC Holidays 5 staff t-shirt or noticed that we have been using this phrase Family Programs 5-6 a lot lately, but what do you think it means? Is it FIND Your Education & Families 7-21 Center like a scavenger hunt or is it Find Your CENTER like A Whitefish Bay Native Takes 7 being in a Pilates class and focusing on your core? I think the on a New Role beauty is it could be either, but I also want you to think about it Family Programs 8 as a component of your unique relationship with the JCC - Find Early Childhood 9 YOUR Center. How does the JCC play a part in your life and Youth Programs 15 the life of your family? Special Needs & Inclusion 19 Camps 22-23 YOUR Center can be a place; in time, in geography, or in mind. Camp for the Next Generation 22 Maybe you find your center at camp or volunteering at the Early Registration 23 Jewish Community Pantry. YOUR Center can be a physical Fitness & Recreation 24-36 state, or emotional strength, or the continuation of a spiritual Fall Fitness Forecast 24 journey that you have found in a specific class or program. You Aquatics 25 can Find YOUR Center in a specific moment in time or phase Recreation 28 of life — or maybe you have found it for the duration, at every Fitness 29 turn for every unique need. Arts & Ideas 37-43 As a center for our Jewish Community and for the entire Season 5780: Innovation 37 Community, I see this finding of center around us everywhere Featured Events 38 and it is inspiring. As we prepare for the High Holidays and the Jewish Education 40 start of a new Jewish year, I invite you to share with me how Free Jewish Films 42 you have found YOUR Center. Join me this year in continuing Community 44-58 to challenge and grow how our JCC can be a Center for you Partnering to Build a Healthier 44 and for everyone in our community. A year that we all find Milwaukee (right in the Marcus a center filled with hope, filled with Kehillah (community) Gymnasium) and filled with inspiration. May we all go from Strength to Adult Social Programs 45 Strength. Jewish Community Pantry 46 Employment 47 B’Shalom, Community & Neighborhood Partners 48 Endowment, Legacy, Tributes 51 Leadership & Staff 56 Membership Options 58 Index Inside back cover JCC Fall 2019 Journal | Volume 11 | Issue 1 Mark Shapiro The JCC Journal is published four times a year: President & Chief Executive Officer August, November, March and May. FIND YOUR CENTER Patron priority registration Karl Jewish Community Campus begins Monday, August 5 6255 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Whitefish Bay Member priority registration Gan Ami Early Childhood Education Karl Campus begins Monday, August 12 Whitefish Bay Linda & Fred Wein Family Center for Gan Ami Early Childhood Community registration 10813 N. Port Washington Rd., Mequon begins Monday, August 19 Albert & Ann Deshur JCC Rainbow Day Camp Fall session classes begin W3985 Trails End Rd., Fredonia the week of Sunday, September 8 Hy & Richard Smith JCC Water Park 11015 N. Market St. W15, Mequon Register online at jccmilwaukee.org Daniel M. Soref Education & Retreat Center Follow Us W3985 Trails End Rd., Fredonia Steve & Shari Sadek Family Camp Interlaken JCC @JCCMilwaukee 7050 Old Highway 70, Eagle River Jewish Community Pantry 2900 W. Center St., Milwaukee 2 Take a Class OUR COMMUNITY OUR MEMBERS The JCC is for everyone! Most all of the classes In addition to having access to all of the state- and programs found on these pages are open of-the-art facilities listed below, JCC members for community registration. There are classes for receive discounted Member Value class toddlers and teens, artists and athletes. Adults pricing, a week of priority class registration, can explore everything from Pilates to political and the knowledge that they are supporting science. Try us out, take a class, and find your an organization that makes a difference in our center at the J. community. Class Pricing Guide: COMM = Community Rate | MEM = Member Value | PTRN = Patron Value See page 58 to learn more about JCC membership. JCC MEMBERSHIP VALUE HABUSH FITNESS CENTER PECK AQUATIC CENTER HY & RICHARD SMITH State-of-the-Art Fitness floor Ozone-filtered JCC WATER PARK WIRED Heart Rate Training (minimal chlorine) JUNE - AUGUST Private Personal Training studio 25-yard lap pool Zero-entry splash pad with diving board Isawall functional Activity island with training space Family pool water cannons & slides Two group exercise studios Co-ed whirlpool Lily pad jumping activity Dedicated cycling studio American Red Cross Aqua Climbing wall Learn to Swim Program Pilates studio Diving board (add’l fee) Yoga Studio Water basketball hoops Complimentary Cardio & strength water fitness classes Sand playground machines Lap swim Dry play area with Free weight area American Red Cross Basketball, Volleyball, Gaga pit Stretch space certified lifeguards Full-service snack shop Renovated locker rooms Family locker rooms MARCUS GYM YOUR MEMBERSHIP SUPPORTS Over 65 free group exercise classes on Regulation-size gym Jewish Community Pantry page 35-36 6 basketball hoops serving the near west side 2 full-size courts Inclusion Services for MEMBER PERKS Youth & Adults Cushioned jogging track Member Value with Special Needs Smaller Family Gym Class Pricing Senior Adult Programs with lowered hoops Priority Class Scholarships for Small climbing wall Registration individuals & families Adult & Youth Hourly Childcare Inclusive Community Events (add’l fee) Basketball leagues Available for open play 3 JEWISH LIFE Jewish Life Milwaukee’s Jewish community is vibrant and diverse, and the JCC is right at the center of the action. Creating an inclusive Jewish gathering space means celebrating the values and traditions that unite us. No matter if you grew up Jewish or are new to the community, you always have a home here. Family programs, youth education, and holiday celebrations fill our calendar and make Jewish tradition, practice, and exploration accessible to all families. היהודיים החיים היהודיים jccmilwaukee.org/programs/jewish-life 4. Kol Nidre is translated to mean “All Vows.” Chai-Five: 5 Fun Facts about the On Yom Kippur evening, in synagogues all over the world (and High Holidays by Neil Diamond in “The Jazz Singer”) the Kol Nidre prayer is chanted 3 times. This prayer cancels any oaths that were Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are known as the High Holidays made directly with God in the prior year so that we can start and are sometimes referred to as the Days of Awe. This 10- over and have a clean slate. For example, if you promised to day period, which begins this year at sundown on September do a better job at controlling your temper, and then continued 29 and continues through Yom Kippur on October 9, is a to lose it repeatedly over the past year, you will annul that time of personal reflection, family gathering, and communal oath so that you aren’t starting the new year with that same engagement for Jews throughout the world. As an inclusively broken promise in place. Kol Nidre does not, however, cancel Jewish community center that welcomes people with varying out promises made with other people. To make peace with degrees of knowledge on Jewish holidays, we put together others, you need to seek forgiveness directly. some fun information you may or may not know about the High Holidays to get you to start thinking about the holiday season. 5. Eating a big meal before you fast is not the best idea. Traditionally, the meal eaten before sundown on Erev Yom 1. The ‘80s are back! Kippur is large and festive. However, eating extra food — On Rosh Hashanah, we will end the Hebrew year 5779 and particularly in one last-minute feast — will not keep you going begin the year 5780. Does this mean you should dust off your for 24 hours. Nutritionists suggest eating small amounts of neon legwarmers and go get a perm? Only you can decide, carbohydrates (bread, potato, rice, pasta), some protein like but since high-waist jeans and fanny packs are already back, fish or chicken, and fruit before beginning your fast on Yom anything can happen. Kippur. 2. Rosh Hashanah is only 1 of 4 Jewish New Years on the Hebrew calendar. Rosh Hashanah is literally translated to mean the head of the year. But there are three more dates on the Hebrew calendar that are considered new years as well. In the Book of Exodus, the beginning of the year was set as the 1st of Nisan, the month in spring that contains Passover. Jewish tradition also marks Tu Bishvat, the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat, as the new year for trees and the 1st of Elul, usually in late summer, as the new year for the tithing of animals. 3. A shofar doesn’t always smell so good. The key commandment of Rosh Hashanah is to hear the sounding of the shofar. A shofar is an instrument made out of an actual ram’s horn, so it is going to have a certain natural aroma to it. If someone tells you that they can sell you a shofar that doesn’t have any smell, then you are probably not getting a genuine ram’s horn shofar. How can you make a new shofar less stinky? Rinsing it out with a solution of baking soda and vinegar should do the trick.